Bay's film is decent, because actors do their best and script is decent

Rating: 7/10 (8 August 2005)

The island has a great story, script, cast and premise. However, one thing could have possibly went wrong Michael Bay! The film was surprisingly set up very well, first half kept me interested. Its about a man who questions his existence in a utopian facility in which people train, train and train and hope to win a lottery in which they go to an "island". The story was pretty creative and good in my opinion, however the direction was horrible, there was action that was just not needed. The dialogues were not that great, although Buscemi was hilarious. I thought it was solid for the first 30 minutes, and then fell apart nice script, acting and score, and bay's direction really is beautiful to the eye, but he is really bad at telling the story with his camera. 7/10